WEST HARTFORD — A husband and wife were seriously injured when they were stabbed with a sword early Wednesday at a hookah lounge on Park Road, officials said.

Police identified the injured as George Ayoub, 47, and his 24-year-old wife, Najeh Frehi. Ayoub owns the 1001 Arabian Nights Hookah Lounge at 134 Park Road, where he was found early Wednesday with serious stab wounds, police said.

Frehi was found down the street, outside 96 Park Road, with serious stab wounds to her shoulders and cuts to her hands, police said.

Frehi and Ayoub were being treated at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center on Wednesday, and Capt. Don Melanson said he expects both to be held overnight. He said hospital staff told them that Ayoub's injuries are life-threatening.

Police said they received a 911 call from Ayoub at 3:17 a.m., saying his wife had stabbed him.

The first officers to arrive found Frehi outside and began treating her, while others went to the hookah lounge and could see Ayoub through the window, Melanson said. He was still on the phone with a police dispatcher asking for help. The business door was locked and Ayoub was bleeding heavily and too badly injured to unlock it, so officers smashed their way through the glass door to reach him, Melanson said.

A large sword was found at the scene, Melanson said.

Although Ayoub told police that his wife stabbed him, detectives are working to determine what led up to the assaults.

Police have been able to interview Frehi. The only information they have from Ayoub are his initial comments to dispatchers during the 911 call.

Park Road was closed during part of the morning commute as police gathered evidence outside the business. They obtained a search warrant before going into the lounge to gather evidence.

The hookah lounge is along a busy section of Park Road near the popular Plan B Burger Bar. Yellow crime scene tape still cordoned off the area around the lounge on Wednesday night.

A hookah lounge is a business where people smoke flavored tobacco from a hookah, a communal smoking pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water.